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Nov. 3 1957 the first earthling went into orbit. It wasn't a man but his best friend, a dog. In honor of our own Laika and my own geek fascination with space I'm posting this link to a Msnbc article about the one and only spacedog. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21596557/
hugs all!!!
grover
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I cried
when I realised the Russians had shot a dog into space and my mother couldn't reassure me it would be rescued. Can't say it endeared them to me, and experiences of them as loutish tourists since, have done nothing to dispel my original disgust.
So as far as I'm concerned they can stick their soyuz as far up their sputnik as a mir cosmonaut can reach!
Angharad.
PS I love space too, have a 9" Smidt Cassegrain reflector, dozens of books on astronomy and hundreds on astrology.
Angharad
Not many know
that many of the animals shot into space died up there. That is very sad. However more than a few humans has died in space or trying to get there. It is not a safe place. It does offer opportunities to preserve our environment. Laika and all like her deserve our respect every much as any astronaut or cosmonaut. I remember as a kid watching the people in mission control shouting "Go baby go!"
grover- space geek
all dogs go to heaven
The human astronauts knew the risks, and not even in Russia were kissed off as something disposeable (but I know you realize this, Grover). I chose her name (which means "barker") as a tribute to her, and out of a rather adolescent sense of irony. Laika is for me a symbol of everyone who was ever a pawn to principalities; Lied to, manipulated and chumped by forces they might only barely comprehend. Dogs are pure beings, you know she was totally trusting ("Puppy wanna go for a ride?") right up until the awful noises and g-forces. I'm not totally opposed to experimenting on animals for medical research & the like,
but this was pretty goddamn sickening and sad ....... Glad the U.S. didn't do that to Ham the Chimp,
our first astronaut...
~~~doggy kisses, LAIKA
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0
I have my suspicions
I think Korolev had a cat and it whispered in his ear at night, "Put a dog in orbit, put them all."
But he only remembered to put Laika up.
I'm sorry, my cats ordered me to do this.
And you though Bonzi was bad.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
I agree Laika
It was a pretty foul way to man's best friend. The picture in the link show such a happy little pup. We may call dogs man's best friend but sometimes I doubt that dogs call US their best friends! For those interested here is a partial list of other animal spacers http://www.vibrationdata.com/space/Animals.htm
I was going to say more about how mankind treats those who is different, tribe, clan, race, gender, and any other nit picking thing we can find, but I decided not too.
Hugs!
grover
I'll say this much
When you consider how we humans treat our very own, what chance stands the other inhabitants with which we share this planet?
In honor of all
We should also remember and honor the U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts who have died on the launch pad or in flight.
Apollo 1 January 27th, 1967
Gus Grissom
Ed White
Roger Chaffee
Challenger STS-51L January 28th, 1986
El Onizuka
Christa McAuliffe
Greg Jarvis
Judy Resnik
Mike Smith
Dick Scobee
Ron McNair
Columbia STS-107 February 1, 2003
Rick Husband
Kalpana Chawla
William McCool
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Michael Anderson
Ilan Ramon
Columbia was particularly close to me as the fireball that marked the destruction of Columbia and the death of these seven was clearly visable over the DFW area.
I'm sorry I don't have the names and dates for the Russian cosmonauts, and I understand there is still some doubt over the exact numbers anway, but I honor them in thought if not by name.
"Space - The Final Frontier . . ."
Karen J. Taylor
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Cosmonauts + 1
1967, April 24 Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov died during the landing of Soyuz 1
1971 June 30 - The crew of Soyuz 11, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov
1967 November 15 - U.S. Air Force test pilot Major Michael J. Adams was killed in his X-15-3. Posthumously awarded astronaut wings for his last flight
From the oracle - Wikipedia.
Thanks
For the additions. I suspect we may never know just how many Russian cosmonauts have died during missions. I recall there was some controversy about one early mission that had voice transmissions that ceased during flight, the USSR claimed it was only a recorded voice to test the audio channels.
KJT
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Still others ...
Pravda (!) had a report recently that Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first cosmonaut launched, just the first that survived. Supposedly there were (at least) two before him that perished.
Nicole (a.k.a. Itinerant)
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Veni, Vidi, Velcro:
I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Nicole (a.k.a. Itinerant)
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Veni, Vidi, Velcro:
I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Big tobacco honored Muttnik, too
…by cashing in on her.